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“Kady!”

I whip around to look at Hannah as she stands in the doorway of the back room, her hands on her hips and an irritated look on her face. “What?”

“I’ve been trying to talk to you for like five minutes but you’re so damn zoned out. What’s going on with you?”

“I’m sorry, Han,” I sigh, setting my clipboard down on the table. Her brows knit together in concern.

“What’s up, babe? You’re really out of it lately.”

Tears fill my eyes before I can stop them and I clamp my hand over my mouth. God, the last thing I need to do is cry at work. Hannah blinks in surprise before rushing over to me and wrapping her arms around me.

“Kady, you’re scaring me,” she whispers, an ache in her voice and I shake my head. Ugh. This is so stupid. Fuck Noah for making me feel like this instead of just talking to me.

“It’s nothing, I promise.”

She jerks back, holding my arms as she meets my eyes. “Are you fucking kidding me? I’ve never seen you like this so it’s definitely not nothing.”

“I really don’t want to talk about it here,” I tell her, glancing around to make sure none of the other girls are around us. She glances over her shoulder before turning back to me and nodding.

“Okay, I’m going to go tell Dr. Hebert that you don’t feel good and then I’ll drive you home, okay?”

I bite my lip and nod as I wipe a tear from my face. As she turns to go talk to Dr. Hebert, I put away the clipboard and gather up my things before slipping out the back of the building. A few minutes later, she joins me.

“Come on, you.” She links her arm through mine and guides me to her car, which is good since Noah insisted on dropping me off this morning. I climb in the car and release a breath, feeling more relaxed than I have in days but the thought of going back to the cabin erases that in an instant.

“Can you take me to your house?” I ask as soon as Hannah slips behind the wheel and she turns to me with wide eyes.

“Spill, now,” she orders as she closes her door. I sigh as she starts up the car and when she turns to me again, her expression is unyielding. “Any day now, Kady.”

I sigh again. “It’s just… things between Noah and I have been… tense.”

“Why?”

“I told him everything.”

She deflates as a look of sympathy flashes across her face. “Everything, everything? Even Thomas?”

I nod.

“And how is Noah taking it?”

“Not well,” I admit, my voice cracking as tears fill my eyes again. “He’s still there with me twenty-four seven, but we’ve barely spoken in three days. I think he blames himself but I can’t be sure because he won’t open up to me.”

“Oh, honey,” she whispers, trying to hug me with the center console between us before giving up with a sigh. “What are you going to do?”

I shake my head as the tears begin to fall again and pain splinters my chest.. “I have no clue but it feels like I’m losing him, Han.”

“No. That’s not possible.”

“You haven’t seen him.” I look up at her. “He’s like a different person.”

She grabs my hand and gives it a squeeze. “You just have to have faith and if he thinks he can walk away from you, I’ll straighten him out.”

“You look a little scary right now,” I tell her, laughing through my tears. God, I haven’t cried this much since I escaped the apartment and it has me feeling all kinds of weak. Hannah grins and cracks her knuckles in an attempt to cheer me up and it works - if only momentarily.

“All right, I’ll call Dr. Hebert from my house and tell him I’m taking care of you then we can order pizza and watch movies all night.”

I nod. “That sounds amazing.”